Norm Emergence in Population of Evolving Strategies

伴随着有效制裁的社会规范的出现， 重要的社会过程，但没有社会理论令人满意地给出 规范产生的条件，也不是规范产生的过程。 他们出现了。 该项目旨在通过以下方式发展这种理论： 数学建模与计算机仿真相结合。 工作 将以梅纳德·史密斯在进化生物学方面的最新研究为基础 以及其他导致进化稳定的观点 战略，以及阿克塞尔罗德和其他人的工作， 实验和计算机比赛与迭代囚犯 困境 这项工作将特别试图探索的影响， 社会结构对发展的有效制裁。 的 预测的数学模型的变化的影响， 社会结构将通过计算机模拟系统进行测试 相互依存的战略。 这项工作的意义 超越社会理论的发展在于实践问题， 社会控制，例如，条件的问题 成年人能够建立有效的规范体系 控制青少年的行为。

The emergence of social norms accompanied by effective sanctions is an important social process, yet no social theory satisfactorily gives the conditions under which norms will emerge, nor the process by which they emerge. This project aims at developing such theory by means of mathematical modeling accompanied by computer simulation. The work will build upon recent work in evolutionary biology by Maynard Smith and others which has led to the idea of evolutionarily stable strategies, as well as on the work of Axelrod and others in experimentation and computer tournaments with an iterated prisoners dilemma. The work will attempt especially to explore the effects of social structure on the development of effective sanctions. The predictions of a mathematical model about the effects of variations in social structure will be tested against computer simulation of systems of mutually contingent strategies. The significance of this work beyond the development of social theory lies in practical questions of social control, such as, for example the question of the conditions under which adults are able to establish an effective normative system governing the behavior of adolescents.